How absolutely cool! How unlike Fresno and so like Fresyes! Who but our fair city would be so visionary as to have a redwood grove inside our airport?
Yes, thanks to a very creative City of Fresno Airports Department, led by Airports Director Russ Widmar, a risk-taking Mayor Autry and City Council, visitors arriving at or leaving from the Fresno Yosemite International Airport will walk through a redwood grove indistinguishable from what one would encounter in Yosemite or Kings Canyon National Parks (full disclosure: I was a member of the council that approved the trees; also, the trees, not surprisingly, are not real). To make the experience even more memorable, the trees and ground cover are flanked by wonderful pictures of the national parks.
I challenge the reader to name another airport where the trip begins with a stroll through the great trees that grace nearby national parks. I, for one, begin and end most of my international scuba diving trips at our airport. It's neat to know that many of the countries I travel to and from also have wonderful trees. None, however, have trees in their airport!
Who knows what what you might see on your next airport visit to the "woods." If you should by chance come across a bear the park rangers might be lurking around to make sure that you don't feed it. Besides, you just might miss your plane!
Coming Soon. . .
1). City taxpayers guarantee another business loan?
2). Are we there yet? The downtown wayfinding saga.
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